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A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A TREE, originally commisioned as a (Poem)

by: Frank B. Ford

Publication date: 1989-12-07 21:10:42
Usage: CC0 1.0 Universal
Topics: Frank B. Ford (1932-2023), Experimental Literature, Poem, ./fmlaptop/Wking.allforms/Wking.play/PATHEATR/, Yesterday, Vietnam, Boston, The Church of All, The Guthrie Theater, Pakistani, Penton Marshfeld, one, TEXAS
Collection: frankbford; patron-library-collection
Language: English
Item Size: 352.6K

Excerpt:

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A TREE, originally commisioned as a
one-act play, TEXAS by The Guthrie Theater, presents an off-beat verson
of that state.
Into an atmosperhe so hot as to be hallucinatory drops a Boston career
woman. She soon confronts Yesterday, a primitive builder and architect
whose character millitates against his artistic purity. He
is assisted in his projects by an ex-marine made cretinous by Vietnam.
Yesterday's present construction involves The Church of All,
commissioned by
an itinerant Pakistani preacher.

A poem or fragment, derived from Frank B. Ford's Google Drive. Ford was an experimental poet and playwright, and it was his wish to have his work publicly archived online after his death.

The file was automatically converted into an OpenOffice document from WordPerfect, AbiWord, Microsoft Word, or text, and was located at: ./fmlaptop/Wking.allforms/Wking.play/PATHEATR/TEXSUM.odt on the drive. The file date may not be accurate, especially if it is dated after 2022.

~156 words.

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